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• Mileage rates: the approved rate for your own car, the advisory rate for a company car, and which one applies to you

  UK mileage rates explained: the approved mileage allowance for a private car, the advisory fuel rates for a company car, and which applies to which driver.

• Mileage claim: how the approved amount is worked, what your employer can pay tax free, and how to claim the shortfall

  How a UK mileage claim works in your own car: the approved amount, the tax-free payment from the employer, and relief on any shortfall.

• Mileage claim rates: the two approved rates, where the 10,000 mile line falls, and what the employer's own rate does to your tax

  The UK mileage claim rates for a private car: 55p a mile to 10,000 business miles, 25p after, and what a higher or lower employer rate means.

• Business mileage: which journeys count, how the miles are valued for your own car and for a company car, and the log that proves them

  What counts as business mileage in the UK, how it is valued in a private car and a company car, and the log HMRC expects to see behind the claim.

• Claim business mileage: the claim to your employer, the claim to HMRC for the shortfall, and what each one needs

  How to claim business mileage in the UK: the claim to the employer at its rate, the relief claim to HMRC for a shortfall, and the log behind both.

• Claiming business mileage: what the log has to carry, which rate applies, and the four mistakes that turn a claim into taxable pay

  A working guide to claiming business mileage in the UK: the log, the rate for your own car and for a company car, and the mistakes that cost the claim.

• Mileage allowance payments: what an employer can pay for business miles in an employee's own car, and what happens above and below the approved amount

  Mileage allowance payments in the UK: the approved amount an employer can pay tax free for business miles in an employee's own car.

• Approved mileage allowance payment: how HMRC sets the rate, what it stands for, and how it interacts with a car allowance and a fuel card

  The approved mileage allowance payment: what the rate covers, how it is set, and how it meets a car allowance, a fuel card and a company car.

• Company mileage rate: how an employer sets the rate it pays for business miles, and what each choice does to tax, payroll and the driver

  How an employer sets its company mileage rate for private and company cars, what HMRC's rates allow, and the consequence of each choice.

• Company mileage allowance: why a per-mile reimbursement is not a car allowance, and how each is taxed

  The company mileage allowance is a per-mile reimbursement for business miles, taxed unlike a cash car allowance; this page keeps the two apart.

• Electric car mileage rates: the electricity rate for a company electric car, the approved rate for your own, and why they differ

  UK electric car mileage rates: the advisory electricity rates for a company EV, home and public, and the approved rate for a private electric car.

• Electric car mileage allowance: why your own electric car earns the ordinary approved rate, and how a company electric car is reimbursed instead

  The electric car mileage allowance for a private EV is the ordinary approved rate; a company EV is reimbursed at the electricity rate instead.

• Electric vehicle mileage rate: the advisory electricity rate for a company vehicle, the approved rate for your own, and the vans in between

  The electric vehicle mileage rate depends on whose vehicle it is: the electricity rate for a company car, the approved rate for your own car or van.

• EV mileage rates: home charging, public charging, and the approved rate for a driver's own EV, with the arithmetic for a mixed month

  EV mileage rates in the UK: 7p a mile home and 15p public for a company EV, 55p and 25p for your own EV, and how to blend a month charged in both places.

• Mileage allowance electric cars: what an employer can pay a driver of a private EV, a company EV and a salary sacrifice EV, and what to report

  The mileage allowance for electric cars from the employer's side: the approved amount for a private EV, the electricity rate for a company EV.

• Mileage allowance for electric cars: what you can claim in your own EV, what you are paid in a company EV, and the relief on any shortfall

  The mileage allowance for electric cars from the driver's side: the approved amount in your own EV, the electricity rate in a company EV, the relief.

• Mileage rates for electric cars: the current electricity rates, the approved rate, when each changes, and how to apply the right one on the right date

  The mileage rates for electric cars in force now: 7p home and 15p public for a company EV, 55p and 25p for your own EV, and the review dates.

• Mileage claim for electric cars: what goes on the claim for a company EV and for your own EV, and how the shortfall is claimed

  How to make a mileage claim for an electric car: the home and public split on a company EV, the approved amount on your own, and the relief.

• Advisory fuel rates: the current table by fuel and engine size, what they may and may not be used for, and the four dates they change

  HMRC's advisory fuel rates from 1 September 2026 by fuel and engine size, the electricity rates, the quarterly review dates, and the rules for using them.

• How much is company car tax: a worked example from list price to the monthly figure on the payslip, and the four things that move it

  How much company car tax is for a UK driver, worked from a list price and a CO2 band to the monthly deduction, and the four inputs that change the answer.

• Company car tax checker: the five inputs HMRC's method needs, where to find each on the paperwork, and how to check a figure you have been given

  A company car tax checker for UK drivers: the five inputs HMRC's method needs, where each is on the paperwork, and how to check your tax code.

• Company car for directors: how the benefit is taxed when the director is the employer, and the cases where it pays and where it does not

  A company car for directors is taxed like any employee's, but the director pays both sides: the benefit and the Class 1A. When it pays and when not.

• Company car purchase: what has to be recorded when the company buys a car, and how the benefit is taxed from the day it is available

  A company car purchase starts a benefit in kind the day the car is available: what to record from the invoice and the V5C, and what each side pays.

• How does company car allowance work: the cash, the tax on it, the mileage you still claim, and the comparison with the car

  How a company car allowance works: cash paid with salary and taxed as pay, the mileage you still claim in your own car, and the comparison with the car.